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Karin Fischer

A freelance journalist and expert on global issues in higher ed, Karin has been writing for more than a decade about the changing relationship between American colleges and the world.

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Posted inLatitudes

A legislative fix on overseas recruitment

By Karin FischerDecember 13, 2021September 13, 2022

The U.S. House has passed legislation that would make fixes to a veterans training bill that appeared to bar incentive-based compensation in international-student recruitment. 

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What more could colleges be doing for refugees?

By Karin FischerDecember 6, 2021December 7, 2021

A coalition of higher-education and humanitarian-assistance groups seeks to make colleges refugee students’ official sponsors, responsible not just for their educational needs but their financial, logistical, and social ones, too.

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A ‘new reality’ for study abroad

By Karin FischerNovember 29, 2021November 30, 2021

Covid might not continue to be a crisis for study abroad on par with the last couple of years, but it will still affect students’ overseas experiences.

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‘It’s an emergency’

By Karin FischerNovember 22, 2021November 22, 2021

The issue of climate change has moved from the periphery to mainstream discussion within international education, but at the same time, the crisis is worsening.

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A year of unprecedented declines

By Karin FischerNovember 15, 2021November 16, 2021

International enrollments fell 15 percent in fall 2020, the largest one-year tumble in the 72 years the Institute of International Education has been publishing the annual international-student census.

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What Build Back Better means for international education

By Karin FischerNovember 8, 2021November 9, 2021

Fee increases could be coming for international students, but there’s good news for DACA recipients in a social-spending bill.

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A tale of two international enrollment trends

By Karin FischerNovember 1, 2021December 15, 2021

International graduate enrollments rebounded sharply post-pandemic, climbing 13 percent after last year’s declines. But the number of foreign undergraduates continued to slide, declining eight percent from fall 2020.

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A campus-speech law could allow China to police U.S. classrooms

By Karin FischerOctober 25, 2021October 28, 2021

Recordings of classes made under a new Florida policy could put students and faculty at risk of running afoul of Chinese national-security law.

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New legislation would allow U.S. colleges to continue incentive-based student recruiting overseas

By Karin FischerOctober 18, 2021October 18, 2021

A provision in a recently passed bill put the use of agents in international recruiting in an unexpected gray area.

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What’s ahead for English-language programs

By Karin FischerOctober 11, 2021October 12, 2021

Even before Covid-19 struck, enrollments had been in decline. Now, some are voicing cautious optimism.

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